Pietro Musumeci

Pietro Musumeci (18 May 1920-) was an Italian SISMI general and Propaganda Due member who masterminded the 1980 Bologna massacre.

Biography
Pietro Musumeci was born in Catania, Sicily, Italy in 1920, and he became a SISMI agent and a member of the secretive, far-right Propaganda Due group. As the government cracked down on P2 leader Licio Gelli, Musumeci was assigned the task of diverting attention away from Gelli by employing the "strategy of tension". Musumeci had already been in contact with the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari, and he masterminded the "Bologna massacre" of 1980. Musumeci had a SISMI operative in Florence claim responsibility for the massacre on behalf of the NAR, framing them for the attack. Musumeci later planted a similar bomb and a fake dossier on another train, attempting to incriminate the exiled Terza Posizione leaders Roberto Fiore and Gabriele Adinolfi in the attack. On 11 July 1988, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aggravated slander, but his term was reduced to 3 years in 1990. On 16 May 1994, he was again sentenced to 8 years and 5 months of imprisonment, and his sentence was confirmed in 1995.